THE VIABLE SYSTEMS MODEL AND INTER-ORGANIZATIONS

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THE VIABLE SYSTEMS MODEL AND INTER-ORGANIZATIONS
Viveca Asproth Mid Sweden University
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Critical situations caused by flooding
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E-services to citizens
Student
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Collaboration among small and medium sized
companies in a local area
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Challenges of virtual team membership

• - Creating effective team leadership
• - Managing conflict and global virtual teams
  dynamics
• - Developing trust and relationships
• - Understanding cross-cultural differences
• Developing intercultural communication
  competence
• Zakaria et al. (2004)

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Challenges of virtual team membership

• Creating effective team leadership ?
• Organizational learning
• - Managing conflict and global virtual teams
  dynamics
• - Developing trust and relationships
• - Understanding cross-cultural differences
• Developing intercultural communication
  competence

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Spiral Management for Multiple organizationsK.
Obata and H. Shiizuka (2003)
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Viable Systems Model and Inter-organizations?
VSM is applicable for single organizations VSM is
recursive VSM can be used on society level But
Can VSB be used for interorganizations?
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Factors that have to be dealt with
Flexibility independent organizations Stability
coordination for resolving conflicts (system
2) Efficiency The meta-system will look at the
whole system Assimakopoulus and Dimitriou (2006)
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VSM and inter-organizations
The question of how to organize the systems 3-5
and how they will be able to deal with the
problems still remains to be elaborated.